Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-15
PERSONAL.
Y. KAY.

NINE MoDJEsKA does not care to live in Po-
land again. Russian tyranny has destroyed
her patriotism.
OF the 1.726 living graduates of Williams
College ex-President Mark Hopkins has
taught all but thirty-one.
ALBERT NIcKpRsoN, OF sag Harbor, aged
l9, dimes every day with his great grand =
father and two great grandmothers.
AMOS j. CUMMINGS. Congressma elect
from the sixth New York District saws that
it 10 only right that journalist should repre-
sent his district, ae it boasts OF eighteen
cailies, lS1 weeklies and 459 periodicals,
Miss CINDA WILLIAMS, of Dexter. Mo.
was throw n from horse and her head struck
a fence rail, which scalped her thor 1ughly
The scalp was replaced and sewed in posi-
ton. and Miss Williams has already fully re-
covered.
JEREMIAH O'DoNovAN ROSA, JR.. lives in
Chicago. lie is years old, the grandson Of
the great Rosa, and the boys call him "Dv-
Mantle" Consequently he has no sympathy
with the cause for which mis- grandfather lives
and moves and has his being.
KING WILLIAM of Holland will on Feb. ID
celebrate the seventeen anniv rsary of his
birth. In almost every Neiherland village
and town there Will be great festivities: in
every church a service Will be held. and there
will be a general distribution of bounty TO the
poor.
EXCEPT in the matter of conforming to the
Chinese style OF dress, the Chinese Minister
is said be liberal and progressive In his
ideas He holds toe Chinese fashions in ven
Grafton himself and will not permit any Of
his young secretaries 10 appear in anything
but Oriental attire.
GEORGE HANDY SMITH. of Philadelphia. IA
President Of the Pennsylvania Senate He
Ia very abstemiou3 in his habits. A Potter
county paper once alta ked HIM as follows:
He stood up to the Lochiel House bar and
called for bottle after bottle Of ApOlliparis
This is the kind Of men Philadelphia sends to
the Senate"
MISC ANNIE r. HOWARD. following the
suggestion of her father. Charles Il. Howard
Of New Orleans, Will begin in the spring the
construction of free public library as a me-
mortal of him. the building will cost $50 OOO
and have capacity of 100000 volumes. The
i0ram VIII be under the charge of the I'd
lane University.
MISS BERTHA PIERsoN, of the National
Opera Company, recently called on the Presl-
dent. Mr.. Cleveland made the neat remark
thai he was glad the opera season was 40 near
at an end. as he wanted TO see something Of
his wife IN the evenings. 1t Is remarkable
how pleasantly appropriate issmuch OF the
Presidents lighter conversation.
COUNT LEON ToLsToI has doomed forth as
dramatic author. The great master OF
modern romance r as never tried his hand at
dramatic description before. He has just
published dramatic piece that has been re
ceived with unprecedented acclaim at the
Popular Theatre, Moscow, ana this success
has induced the autbor TO write another
drama describing Moujik life. IL will be pro-
duced for the iir,t time AZ the Imperial Thea
tire Of 81. Petersburg shortly before Easter.
W. ;. GILBERT isrecklessly hauled over the
Goals by writer in the London standard.
who charges nun with .'ridicuung patriotism
IN "PinafOre," ''Ihe Pirates" ''Ruddygore,"
etc. Then tnis bumptous critic hmse II sore
~ sips up in telling how. in contrast, Lord
Tennys0n has sung In noby patriotic strains
about the herpism of "oir Thomas Greviile,"
The ElizabethAn hero whose eight of the one
and the hfty-three" forms the topic Of the
laureate's naval masterpiece, was Sir Rich
ara Grengtlle.